The Atheist's Guide to Reality_ Enjoying Life Without Illusions - Alex Rosenberg [160]
access to, 138
fun of, 109
sexism, 112, 144
Shakespeare, William, 212, 273, 274, 300, 307
shame, 140–41
Shikibu, Murasaki, 212
ship of Theseus, 167
short-term memory, in sea slug, 181
side effects, 88
sign language, 199
silent counting, 201
noises in consciousness, 201
speech, 203
Silk, Joan, 322
simple substances, 234
Sistine chapel, 33
Skinner, B. F., 124, 136
sleepless nights, 241
sliver of adaptation, first, 71
small children, 98
small-number problem, 85
smart alecks, 314, see also philosophers of history; conundrums
smart-ass, Zeno as, 228
Smith, Adam, 298
Smith, John Maynard, 320, 323
Snow, C. P., 299, 305, 331
social Darwinism, 113
social intelligence, 121
social psychologists, 269
social sciences, 165, 242–75
social tolerance, 120
sociology, 116, 242
sociopaths, 142
sodium, 62–63, 63
software engineers, 186
solar eclipse, 33
Soon, C. S., 324
Sophie’s Choice (Styron), 10, 212
sorties, 285
soul, 3, 163, 195, 233, 290–91, 311
nonexistence of, 147
South America, 55
Soviet Union, 75, 246, 297
space of alternative variations, 248
Spassky, Boris, 187
species, 75
Spencer, Herbert, 113
sperm, human, 73–74, 88
Splenda, 63–64, 64
spontaneous helping, rare in chimpanzees, 121–22
spoon bending, cosmic, 42
Squire, Larry, 326
squirrels, 226
SS, 143
stability, 65
of molecules, 60
stagflation, 265
Stalin, Joseph, 98, 142–44
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 317, 323, 325
stars, 22
number of, 36
state of nature, 98
staying in bed all day, 281
stealth bomber, 248
stem-cell research, 96, 287, 289
still photographs, 192
stimuli, external, internal, 189
sting, taken out of nihilism, 114, 115–45
stoning of women, 143
stop sign, 175, 175–76
stories, 8, 14, 48, 132, 205, 213, 214, 310
our love of, 19
with plots, 17, 208
telling, 206, 311
story time, now over, 14–17
strategic interaction theory, 123
see also game theory, defined
strategies in a game, 129
stream of consciousness, 210, 307
street musician, 128
string theory, 148, 275
strong force, 36, 39
structuralism, 305
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The (Kuhn), 302
struggle for survival, 75
“stupid design,” 50
Styron, William, 212, 283
subaltern theory, 305
subjective point of view, 219, 229–33
suboptimal alternatives, 81
sucralose, see Splenda
sucrose, see sugar
sugar, 63–64, 64
suicide, 3, 281
sun, 51, 80
superego, 303
superposition, quantum, 48
superstring theory, see string theory
survival, 106
Sutcliffe, Peter, 142
suttee, 143, 144
Sydney, Australia, 173
symbiosis, 53, 247
symmetrical process, 33, 34, 78, 79
synapses, 181, 182, 183
Szathmáry, Eörs, 320
Tale of Genji, The (Shikibu), 212
talents and abilities, 295–96, 297
talking cures, 285
Talleyrand, 14
tamarin monkeys, 122, 198
tantrums, of introspection, 186
target matching, illusion, 161
tauons, 21
taxation, as slavery, 295
technology, 23
advance of, 271
teeth, 118
teleology, defined, 40
worldview, 93
template matching, 59, 61
Templeton, John, 45–46, 82, 91, 92
temporary equilibrium, 262
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 77
Thatcherite Republicans, 121
theism, 82–92, 95, 276
minimal, 87
theologians, 37
theories, 15, 260–61, 266
theory of mind, 10, 11, 13, 121, 122, 123–24, 136, 139, 198, 199,
204
as an ability, 213
theory of natural selection, 18
see also Darwinian theory
theory of relativity, 28
see also general relativity
thermodynamic improbability, 91
thermodynamic noise, 60, 61, 67
thermodynamics, 52, 276
thinking about Paris, 172–77, 174
thinking about stuff, 163, 164–93, 205, 208
brain doesn’t do it, 239, 285
Thinking About the Unthinkable (Kahn), 171
thinking without thinking about things, 170, 171–79
third dimension, 156
Third Reich, 106
Thirty Years’ War, 215
Thomson, William,